went with the harps for xmas exchange at sentosaaa ytd!!! ;DD
initially there was supposed to be me, Junqiang, Johnia, Ruoting, Mathew, Leeping, Abilgail and Zona.
but then, abilgail had to work, plus *ahem* mathew and leeping were sick (so were john and I). so it totally ended up at merely me, JQ, john, rt and zona meeting up. -_- (we totally only knew mathew and leeping weren't coming when we were already on our way btw).
actually i was rather cranky initially yesterday. like, imagine having fever (slight only actually) and flu and everything. but ohwells i didn't really bother and went anyway..
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oh i just realised i should totally blog about the present buying process!!!
anyway, since there were guys (supposingly Jq and Mathew) and girls, we all had to buy unisexual presents! and Jq was -___- because if he knew mathew wasn't coming, he wouldn't have to buy unisexual presents since the person receiving his present HAS to be a girl.
and anyway, i only bought my present the day before we all had christmas exchange, although i knew all along what to get. :DD
and it was damn stupid.
on the morning that i got the present, i met rt at ssc daiso coz i wanted to find whether they sell suitable diamantes there, as well as to get a box to store my gift.
and i was sulking coz apparently, turned out that daiso sold boxes that were either too big or too small. and as any other ordinary human being, obviously i chose the bigger box.
and there came another problem: the big boxes were all madly hideous!!! what the shit is wrong with designers?! and i bet the person who designed it is like, 65years old or something. all the patterns all look like table cloth (an ugly one at that) lor! wts.
but thankfully, wonderful ruoting managed to find for me a decently coloured one (normal cardboard box colour. definitely better than table cloth colour)
p/s: at this point of time, i sneezed 4times in a row!!
ahem.
so anyway after that, i went to buy the present for xmas exchange! but to my huge dismay, i realised something alarming. I DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY FOR THE PRESENT!!!! and to make things worse, I WAS ONLY SHORT OF $2!! (technically speaking, it's only $1.40 short).
and i was so horrified!!! and i went all around causeway point in hope of finding a money changer (I had 20euros in my wallet, which is equivalent to $40!!!). and to my huge dismay (again), i found 2 money changers!!! but they were closed!!! (coz it was christmas!!)
and i thought to myself: wahlau... I thought ALL money changers are indian muslims... How come they celebrate christmas one... (or at least, that was my impression. don't bother correcting me about how 1 in 100 money changers are not indian muslims. i don't wanna know.)
and so, i sadly dragged my feet back home to get an extra 2bucks before going to get the gift again.
i'm such a nice friend right???????????????????? ;D
anyway, after i got the present, i happily went home and placed the present into the box.
and i was horrified.
i totally over estimated the size of the present!!! the present was only about 2/5 of the size of the box!! (shocks!!). and it would look really stupid if like, the person who receives my gift open the box to see 3/5 of the box empty!!!
and plus i bought small fur balls to be placed in the box (as deco), and i totally bought too little. -_- and it ended up looking awfully ridiculous.
and to fill up the remaining 3/5 of the empty box, i decided to *sniffles* sacrifice one packet of my beloved corn potage!!! <3<3<3
oh anyway my mum took an immediate liking for the present i bought.
mum: eh! make sure you get back your own present! then you can take home and give me!!
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so anyway, we all met at Khatib's backside at 8.30am before going over to harbourfront for breakfast/lunch (coz johnia the pig was complaining that she's very hungry).
and we went on board the boat/whatever that floating thing is called for this bookfair that was on at that point of time. and johnia kindly suggested that we all take a photo of ourselves on the boat and pretend that we were all going on a cruise together and that we enjoyed ourselves tremendously -___-
and the prices were really interesting! like the prices were in units. like 100units is $4. very much like the currency conversion of thai baht to sing dollars.
so anyway after that, we all went to take the monorail to sentosa.
wahlau! the whole of singapore like very free like that lor. THE CROWD WAS DAMN HUGE!!!! LIKE SERIOUSLY!! as though they've never been to sentosa before! and the queue to get tix to get to sentosa was like omfgbbq. and so, being the not-so-normal singaporeans, we hated queuing up and we decided to see if there were other alternatives to get our butts into sentosa without having to queue.
and heh! we realized we could just tap our ez-link cards at the gantry. hah! awesome! so we didn't have to queue up *secretly scoffs at loser Singaporeans queuing up without realizing they could just tap their ez-link cards and get through*
and so, as expected, the queue to get into the monorail was super damn long!!!
and entertaining enough, there were 2 rows of people initially, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, a third queue appeared, and strangely enough, the ENTIRE 3rd queue consisted of INDIANS AND INDIANS ONLY!!! o.o!!!
not that i'm being racist whatsoever. but it was really strangely weird! like almost a separate queue for every race! o.o
so anyway, when the doors of the monorail opened, the whole entire crowd LITERALLY pushed and squeezed their way through!!! WTF?! the only other experience that could rival that feeling was, well, that fine day when we all queued at junction 8 for 4hours to get.. uh, free poster of BOF.
for more info about how retardly squeezy it was, please kindly refer to JQ's blog at me-not-otaku.blogspot.com at his FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2009 post.
p/s/s: no one else blogged about how squeezy it was except him.
so anyway, johnia was being a total boob coz she was afraid of heights (on the monorail??)
rt: then how you take mrt one?!
johnia: mrt not so high wad!!
me: *looks down*
me: eh this one lower den mrt leh!!
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i bet johnia would have hugged onto a pole or something on the monorail if she could. LOSER HO ;DDD
and when we went to the beach (finally), it was surprisingly NOT HOT AT ALL!!! i was secretly happy while JQ T.T-ed coz he can't suntan (coz got no sun! :D ).
so anyway, we all laid RT's poncho on the beach beside a coconut tree before me and rt (being the first 2 brave souls) went into the sea!!!
and the sea was super super cold!!! it took us super damn long to get used to the temperature! it was rather awesome actually!! hearts! (:
and i was being a chicken at first, trying to get used to the temperature by squatting in the water and JQ poked me with his finger and i plopped butt-first into the water -_-
and we started to sand + water fight stupidly (and we were totally dirty with sand). and everytime i got attacked with sand, i went into the water to "wash myself clean", without realising the water might be even dirtier (considering it's a sea. in singapore at that.).
and i accidentily swallowed water many times and the taste was *cringes*.
and after multiple water attacks by lousy JQ, me and RT decided to just attack JQ (one sided attack), while he just stood there, wiping the water off his precious face. and as usual, johnia was being a whiny pork the whole day and refused to get into the water coz the sand very coarse *whines*. HAHAHA whiny pork!
p/s/s/s: we did force loser ho into the water in the end anyway.
p/s/s/s/s: Zona didn't get into the water at all coz she didn't bring extra pants ):
and after a while, we all realised it was drizzling and we decided to take shelter at this... uh, pavillion. and it was after we washed up a little before we decided to do our exchanging of gifts!
p/s/s/s/s/s: the day before, johnia excitedly told me that she found a way to do christmas exchange! and she sent this to me to be printed out:
THE RIGHT FAMILY.
Christmas was almost here, and Mother RIGHT was finishing the Christmas baking.
Father RIGHT, Sue RIGHT, and Billy RIGHT returned from their last-minute Christmas errands.
"There's not much LEFT to be done," said Father RIGHT as he came into the kitchen.
"Did you leave the basket of food at church?" asked Mother RIGHT.
"I LEFT it RIGHT where you told me to," said Father RIGHT.
"I'm glad my shopping is done," said Billy RIGHT. "I don't have any money LEFT."
The hall telephone rang, and Susan RIGHT LEFT to answer it.
She rushed back and told the family "Aunt Tillie RIGHT LEFT a package for us RIGHT on Grandma RIGHT's porch.
I'll go over there RIGHT now and get it." she said as she LEFT in a rush.
Father RIGHT LEFT the kitchen and brought in the Christmas tree.
By the time Susan RIGHT returned, Mother RIGHT, Father RIGHT, and Billy RIGHT had begun trimming the tree.
The entire RIGHT family sang carols as they finished the decorating.
Then they LEFT all the presents arranged under the tree and went to bed, hoping they had selected the RIGHT gifts for their family.
Now I hope you have the RIGHT present for yourself, because that's all that's LEFT of our story.....
Except to wish you a Merry Christmas....Isn't that RIGHT?
and so, we were seated in a circle, and everytime we hear a directional command word (aka left and right in this case), we'll just pass the gift we're holding on to in the respective direction. and the gift we're holding onto at the end of our story would be the gift we get!
and we were seated in this way:
*clockwise direction*
me, Johnia, Ruoting, Junqiang, and Zona (and then back to me).
and so, we happily passed our presents around for the first time! and guessed whose presents we all got??
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*drumrolls*
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WE GOT BACK OUR OWN!!!! -_-
and so, we decided to do a second round, this time, ignoring the 'left' command. and so, we FINALLY got different gifts.
oh, btw halfway through passing:
rt: uh, johnia... *touches johnia's gift*
rt: is your gift an umbrella??
us: *shocked*
john: uh, dun tell you!
and we were all totally trying to avoid johnia's present ROFLROFLROFL!
and anyway here're whose present we got!
JQ got Johnia's present
Johnia got RT's present
RT got Zona's present
Zona got MY present :DD
I got JQ's present :DD
LOL!
we were secretly laughing at jq for getting john's present anyway. :P
and we opened up our presents one by one, with Jq as the first and Zona as the last.
turned out that JQ really got an umbrella!! TOTALLY BLOOD RED ONE AT THAT. joke!!! :DD
and RT got a feather pen plus.... uh... i.. kinda forgot.. uh... okay just wait till i go ask rt and she replies.
and I got this xmas-ey snow ball? crystal ball? water ball? dunno what's the name of that
and Johnia got RT's piggy wiggy
johnia: eh the pig not cute one!!! the teddy bear he holding cuter! im gonna cut it off!
rt: *HORRIFIED*
and Zona got my gift!!! which was the mini version of duckles!!! plus my corn potage!! :DD
and im actually quite bored already coz i've been blogging the whole day and im gonna do more important things, like, watch my online drama before i continue blogging (: